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Microfilm of notebooks of Robert Garioch Sutherland, containing drafts of poems, notes on harmony, Italian grammar and vocabulary, notes from Sutherland's reading, and other miscellaneous material.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.823-824
Dates:
1943-1968.
Microfilm of notes in “Jamieson's dictionary of the Scottish language", revised edition (Paisley, 1912), notebooks and a journal of William Soutar.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1132-1133
Dates:
1912-[Before 1944].
Microfilm of papers of Edwin Muir.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.464
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
Copy of ‘First poems’ (London, 1925) by Edwin Muir, with numerous manuscript corrections and notes, [1925, or after], by the poet (MS.19651);
Copy of ‘Chorus of the newly dead’ (London, 1926) by Edwin Muir, with Muir's corrections, [1926, or after] (MS.19652);
Manuscript and typescript drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1942-?1959], by Edwin Muir (MS.19653);
Notebook, 1947-1948, of Edwin Muir (MS.19663).
Dates:
[1925, or after-?1959.]
Microfilms of papers from the time of Sir Thomas John Cochrane’s service in the East India Station.
Series
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1036-1038
Dates:
1842-1847.
Notebook belonging to William Rankin, James Rankin, and, finally, to Gabriel Rankin of Orchardhead.
Item
Identifier: MS.6159
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:(i) Memoranda relating to financial and other transactions of Rankin of Orchardhead, 1605 (folio 1); 1605-1609 (folio 2 inverted);(ii) Miscellaneous material, mid-seventeenth century: 'Lactari cordato et greca lingua studioso' (folio 4); latin verses (folio 12 inverted); sermons and historical notes (folio 13 inverted);(iii) Material relating to Alexander Mure, portioner of Grange of Bothkennar: 'Rentall of the Bacraw', 1639,...
Dates:
1605-1725.
Notebook containing lecture notes taken by Allen Thomson when in Paris.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11114
Dates:
1829.
Notebook containing notes of a civil law student on Justinian, ‘Institutes’.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.2.24
Scope and Contents
The notes are not authoritative.
Dates:
17th century.
Notebook containing notes of Edith Dalhousie Login relating to her publications "Lady Login's recollections" and 'The story of the Campbells'.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14186
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains research notes, including pedigrees and extracts from letters.
Dates:
1906-1913.
Notebook mainly in the hand of Walter Macfarlane in which are recorded miscellaneous notes on Scottish parochial and ecclesiastical history.
Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.6.6(I-II)
Dates:
Circa 1741, 1753.
Notebook of Alexander Drysdale, containing material on trigonometry with calculations of heights and distances illustrated with drawings in watercolours.
Item
Identifier: MS.14286
Scope and Contents
One example is taken from Leith (folio 26). Also included are some sketch plans of property near Fergus, Ontario, farm accounts and miscellaneous notes, 1835-1838.
Dates:
Early 19th century.
Notebook of George Crawfurd containing chiefly excerpts and notes on genealogies, charters of Mortification, and the later Abbots of Holyrood.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.34.6.7
Dates:
1st half of 18th century.
Notebook of James Steuart, Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe.
Item
Identifier: MS.5725
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains: copies of James Steuart’s appointment to the office of Keeper of the King's Wardrobe, 1737 (folio 1); list of perquisites of the office (folio 3); order for drawing up inventories (folio 4 verso); copy of inventories, 1685, 1714, of the furniture in different departments of Holyroodhouse, such as the Wardrobe, Council Chamber, Exchequer, Session House, etc., (folio 8); and a history of the office, including copies of documents relating to it (folio 28 verso). Most of...
Dates:
1685-1769.
Notebook of notes taken by Charles C Easterbrook at Edinburgh University from tutorial classes on moral philosophy.
Item
Identifier: MS.19315
Dates:
1886-1887.
Notebook of Robert Jackson, a schoolboy, consisting chiefly of geometrical rules, exercises, and diagrams; followed by some more general mathematical notes, and some punitive 'lines'.
Item
Identifier: MS.9156
Dates:
1788.
Notebook of Thomas Heart, containing prose translations, poetry, notes and some medical recipes.
Item
Identifier: MS.3004
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains prose translations of most of Horace's ‘Odes and Epodes’ (inverted folio 3, folio 1 verso), a poem entitled "The believer's dowry" with other verses and notes of a religious nature (folio 4), and some medical recipes (folio 27 verso). Dates ranging between the years 1720 and 1763 occur at points throughout the volume.
Dates:
1720-1763.
Notebook, presumably of the late nineteenth century, containing an epic poem in Gaelic, and related material.
Item
Identifier: MS.3280
Scope and Contents
The notebook contains:(i) 'Craobh sgaoilidh nan Gaedheal' (The expansions of the Gaels), being five parts and the argument of a sixth part of an epic, which begins with the migration of the Celts from Asia to Europe (folio 1);(ii) Material, mainly biographical and genealogical, copied from printed sources, especially from Alexander Cameron's ‘The history and traditions of the Isle of Skye’ (folio 50).On folio 1 verso is a note, 'The following are original...
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Notebooks and research notes, of Margaret Elphinstone, for the novel "Voyageurs".
Collection
Identifier: Acc.12528
Dates:
2002-2003.
Notebooks of John Duncan, containing notes and extracts from published works on artists, art techniques and related subjects.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6866/1-13
Dates:
Circa 1890-1943, undated.
Notebooks of lecture notes and excercise books of Elsie Jean McGuire relating to her studies at Edinburgh College of Domestic Science.
File
Identifier: Acc.12465
Scope and Contents
Includes text books.
Dates:
1938-1939, undated.
Notebooks of Thomas Tod Stoddart containing verses, angling notes and a few prose works by the angler poet.
Series
Identifier: MSS.10292-10304
Dates:
1825-1880.
Notes and drafts by Harry Pirie-Gordon of Buthlaw on the history of Dumbarton Castle, Celtic rulers of Strathclyde, and other topics in Highland history and genealogy.
Fonds
Identifier: Dep.326
Dates:
[Mid 20th century.]
Notes concerning the seminar of the Free Church of Scotland at Amsterdam.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5998
Dates:
1860.
Notes of Alastair Shanks on the history of the Anderson and Woodman Library, Strichen, Aberdeenshire.
Item
Identifier: Acc.8041
Dates:
1969.
Notes on legal matter in Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Waverley novels’, prepared by Wilfrid Normand, Lord Normand, and D E C Yale, and Wilfrid Normand’s working notebooks for the fair copy.
Series
Identifier: MSS.23070-23116
Dates:
[Circa 1954.]
Papers and correspondence of Dudley Sommer concerning his biography of Lord Haldane.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.348- is now MSS.20661-20667.
Dates:
1952-1964.